Aphodius sus (Herbst, 1783)

Frolov, Andrey & Akhmetova, Lilia, 2013, A contribution to the study of the Lower Volga center of scarab beetle diversity in Russia: checklist of the tribe Aphodiini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) of Dosang environs, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 979-979 : 979

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e979

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scientific name

Aphodius sus (Herbst, 1783)
status

 

sus Heptaulacus Aphodius Scarabaeidae Coleoptera Insecta Arthropoda Animalia

Aphodius sus (Herbst, 1783)

Materials

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova; individualCount: 1; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, left bank of Akhtuba River, floodplain ; decimalLatitude: 46.91; decimalLongitude: 47.91; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2006-10-06; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova; individualCount: 18; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, left bank of Akhtuba River, floodplain ; decimalLatitude: 46.91; decimalLongitude: 47.91; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2006-10-07; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova; individualCount: 6; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: S of Dosang, near Akhtuba River floodplain ; Event: samplingProtocol: larvae hand collecting from soil; eventDate: 2007-05-01; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

Adults occur in large numbers in horse dung in the fall. Larvae were collected among grass roots at the depth of 10-15 cm in riverine secondary forest ( Frolov 2009).

Distribution

Middle and southern Europe, Minor Asia, North Africa, northern Iran, Central Asia up to South Siberia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Aphodius